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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:09:56 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: interface creation notification
Message-ID:  <20020118110956.C1997@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020117185451.V97177-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
References:  <20020117185451.V97177-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>

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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:58:26PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how is a daemon supposed to get informed that a network interface has been
> created? I had hoped, that an RTM_IFINFO message would be created on the
> routing socket, but this is not the case. If an interface is destroyed,
> the routing socket gets a message for whatever reason. Wouldn't it be
> simple to just create an RTM_IFINFO message?
> 
It does get created (you can check with the ``route -vn monitor'' command),
but please see PR kern/33747 for one small pitfall.


Cheers,
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